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Climbing from east to west, by the dam, has some steep places. Not Grapevine steep. But again, scanning my tranny temp in a couple different ICE cars, definitely shows the cooling system working hard. Speaking of steep grades in California, have you ever driven up Old Priest Grade Road to...

The Grapevine is kind of an acid test for any vehicle. I've done it in a Diesel moving truck and was lucky to do 35 mph up the grade. My ICE cars show a lot of transmission heating going up it. If I were doing it daily, bigger tranny coolers would be needed. On the Silicon Valley to Los...

By comparison, the (Gen 2) Volts electric motors can draw 120 kW from its 18.3 kWh pack and max regen is about 60 kW. The Outlander PHEV is sorta similar to a Gen 1 Volt in that when not driving in EV only, it uses a series hybrid configuration at lower speeds/loads. But on the highway then it...

Happy to help. BTW, Tesla can support up to four daisy-chained HPWCs on a single circuit: https://www.tesla.com/support/home-charging-installation/wall-connector There is a fellow on one forum I'm on that uses three HPWCs sharing a single 100 amp circuit - for two Teslas and a Bolt EV. The...

In the case of the Clipper Creek Share2 series EVSEs, breaker->EVSE #1->EVSE #2. For example: https://store.clippercreek.com/Share2-HCS-40-Bundle The Tesla HPWC would be similar. If you scroll to the bottom of the Clipper Creek page, there are other options for different power levels. Also...

If the Outlander can actually do 90 mph climbing from Tejon southbound, that is pretty good! I've not driven our Volt over the Grapevine yet. Supposedly it barely needs Mountain Mode to avoid the dreaded "propulsion power reduced" issues - whereas the Gen 1 Volt definitely did. One of the...

There are a couple of ways to charge two cars using one circuit. Clipper Creek makes a EVSE that is designed to do this. If you have one EVSE plugged into a car, the car can use up to the entire capacity of the circuit (subject to the 80% rule). If a second EVSE is on the same circuit and...

I remember the first time I drove on US 395 from Reno to Los Angeles. (This was nearly 40 years ago.) I was driving south of the Nevada/California border, and it was so picturesque I said to myself "they should make a national park out of this". A couple miles later, a sign indicated a right...

In North America, residences are almost always on 240V split phase feeds. However commercial sites are typically three-phase, where one leg is 208V. So IKEA is most likely running their charging station at 208V. (15 amps * 208 volts = 3.1 kW)

MPGe is often used here in North America. MPGe takes the amount of energy of a gallon of gasoline, about 33.7 kWh, and rates how far the vehicle can travel using that amount of energy. There are separate values for city, highway, and combined. The combined MPGe for the Outlander PHEV is rated...

You might consider just building your own EVSE, e.g, from: https://www.openevse.com/ Then you can set the amperage to whatever you please.

The EU version of the Tesla Model 3 is fitted with Type 2/CCS capability. So they are upgrading all their EU Supercharger sites to include cables with both the original Supercharging connections and a CCS version. However it still won't support other vendors cars. Comparable to the Tesla...

I downloaded a copy of the 2018 Owners Manual from https://carmanuals2.com/get/mitsubishi-outlander-phev-2018-owner-s-manual-111847. It seems to be a North American version of the manual. On page 11-7 (page 446 in the pdf) it has a table showing "Maximum power consumption" of the charging...

Understood. But my question is what the chargers max is at 120v. A lot of EVs in North America limit 120v charging to 12 amps - even though they can draw 16 amps or higher on a 240v (or 208v) circuit. This is because common 120v household circuits are 15 amps with NEMA 5-15 receptacles. Per...

I found a pdf of the U.S. version of the 2018 owners manual. On page 11-7 it says one can charge at up to 1.8 kW on 120v. That is 15 amps - which matches the 240v amperage spec. So if one had a 20 amp (16 continuous per the 80% rule) EVSE to mate to a 20 amp (NEMA 5-20) receptacle and...